Specification of Thornton John Herapath : manufacture of sewage and other manure.

  • Herapath, Thornton John.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of Thornton John Herapath : manufacture of sewage and other manure. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HerapatKs Improvements in the Manufacture of Sewage and other Manure. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Thornton John Herapath in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd September 1854. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Thornton John Herapath, of the City and County of Bristol, Analytical Chemist, send 5 greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the 10 said Thornton John Herapath, Her special licence that I, the said Thorn¬ ton John Herapath, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thornton John Herapath, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and 15 lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improvements in the Manufacture of Manure from Sewage, WHICH ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE PREPARATION OF OTHER ARTIFICIAL MANURES,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thornton John Herapath, 20 by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. 25 NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thornton John Herapath, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):— My Invention consists in employing the coke of the so-called Boghead coal 30 or Torbanehill mineral, either before or after the aluminous ingredients of the coke shall have been extracted by an acid or other chemical for the drying, deodorizing, or absorbing of sewage or other matters operated upon. I proceed as follows i The coke having been crushed or reduced to a powder, more or less fine, by suitable machinery is added to the pulpy or wet sewage manure *35 prepared according to the Specification of a Patent granted to me the Fifteenth day of March 1853, or prepared by any other method, and is incorporated with the pulp in such quantity as will suffice to reduce it to a state of dryness; or